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省城洪繕中十八號

Choose well, your choice is brief

but endless!

Carlyle,

FOR CHRISTMAS.

What shall I give HER

or HIM?

GO TO WATSON'S

there, in all departments you will find

articles and goods in great variety

that will make

USEFUL

ELEGANT and

DESIRABLE

GIFTS.

that will please the giver and delight

the recipient.

LEE YU HING

玉裕李

JADE MERCHANT,

Specialises in High-Clasa Jades,

Jewellery, Ivory, Amber, Agate, Crystal and Curiosities.

Genuine articles and Satisfaction guaranteed.

No. 56, Queen's Road Central. Hong Kong Tel. C. 1908.

Factory: 18, Hung Shou Chung Street, Canton.

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THE CHINATM MAIL,

WHITEAWAYS

JUST RECEIVED

EX S.S. MOREL

250 pcs

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1927.

DIOCESAN SCHOOLS. MAN ELECTROCUTED

NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR ORPHANAGES.

HELPING THE CHILDREN.

East.

INQUEST ON CHINESE CARPENTER,

J

P'RAPS-P'RAPS NOT!

THE JURY'S RIDER,

The Reds caught in Canton are The following subscriptions and At the Central Magistracy yes mostly black and blue all over now," donations have been received for terday afternoon, Major C. Willson, the year 1927. The money is given in his capacity as Coroner, and a

Two Scots attended a variety en- towards the support of orphane and jury composed of Messrs. H. H. tertainment in the village school. destitute children at the Schools, Priestley. W. C. Felshow and W. which are among the oldest of Treskin, held an inquiry into the Among the items was a conjuring Church Institutions in the Far of a Chinese carpenter who

circumstances attending the death performance." After the show one was of the two sald to the other, electrocuted in the Chartered Bank "Weel, noo, that was a grand jug- The original foundation was a basement where new vaults were gler." 1860 us a. Chinese Girls' School. constructed,

"What!" exclaimed the other, "he In 1868 there was a second foun- Altogether three workmen enter was the worst I ever saw." dation us a School for English, ed the basement, and it was given

"Weel," said the first, "rebbe he Chinese and Eurasian children, and in evidence by the deceased's em- wasns very clover, but I gao him a as an Orphanage for destitute chployees that they both felt electric had half-crown for a trick, an' he shocks when they climbed past an iron bar. When the deceased also gae me a guid ane back." It costs about $300.00 per annum reported receiving a shock, they all to feed and to clothe one Orphan, tried to get out of the basement. "Look hero!" cried the indignant Donations can be sent to Mr. P. S. Suddenly the deceased gave a cry housewife. "You said that if I Cassidy, Messrs. J. D. Hutchison &of agony and collapsed,

gave you a meal you'd mow the Co., King's Ruildings, or to Messrs. According to Mr. V. G. Kerley, of grass and roll the lawn for me." Lowe, Bingham

"I did, lady," admitted the out- and Matthews, the Hong Kong Electric Company, Treasurers of the Diocesan Boys' on the 27th or 29th of last month of-work, hla eyes downcast.

the Chartered Bank sent a letter to School or to the Rev. W. T. Feather- the Company's Showroom asking to

"Then," said the woman, "I'va stone, P. O. Box 38.

have the installation in the build shown you where to find the mower *The collections in St. John's ing inspected. The letter did not and roller. Now, why

don't you Cathedral next. Sunday, that is reach him until the 6th, and when get on with it?” Christmas Day, will be on behalf he went to the bank of the Diocesan Boys and Girls|2.30 pm, he learned that a Chi- genuine regret in his voice as he Schools and Orphanages:-

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$1.00 to $2.95

yard

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The Standard Oil Co., of

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Messrs. Thoresen & Co.,

Ltd.

Messrs. Palmer & Turner. The Hong Kong & Shang-

hai Bank

Messrs. D. Sassoon & Co.,

Ltd.

.$

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The man looked up. There was

nese had been electrocuted. Anj answered, "Lady, I'd like to, but inspection of the wires revealed I'm doing this for your own good. that they were extremely old and I've got to teach you a lesson. Never » 50.00 had deteriorated considerably. A 26.00 thorough re-wiring was 50.00 mended in the witness's report. 10.00

recom-

take anybody's word!"

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Mr. A. E. Clark, of the P.W.D.. The housewife was showing her Electrical Department, who visited new mald through the upstairs 20.00 the scene on the morning after the apartments when finally they came accident and inspected the spot to a staircase leading down into the 26.00 where the man had collapsed, said backyard.

50.00

that the fault, which had caused

"Mary," she said, stepping out on the shock apparently had been re- the landing, "whenever you wish to moved by the representative of the

150.00 Hong Kong Electric Company by pass down to the backyard go down disconnecting the fuses from the this way." Just then the apeaker 150.00 faulty circuit.

alipped and was precipitated with 25.00 It appeared to witness that the a great clattering to the bottom.

man was working on reinforced "Are ye hurt, mum?" cried the 25.00 concrete partitions, and where he affrighted maid, staring down from

was standing, there was very little above.

Messrs. Botelho Bros.

The British American To-

bacco Co..

Messrs.

Butterfield

&

Swire Mesars. Deacons

100,00

length of the basement.

room between the partitions (built 150.00

for vaults) and corrugated iron 50.00 roof running along the

whole

"No, It's nothing," came the reply as the mistress rose to her feet.

"Then, if that's what I'm

ex-

25.00

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BIRTH.

phreys & Son

childish action? gain by such There are other points, but these will do for the present. The first Messrs. Davie Bong & Co. point le unanswerable, unless "of-Messrs. Gilman & Co., Ltd. cial idiocy" be the answer; and in Mesars. John D. Hum- regard to the second, we may de Messrs. Hastings, Dennys finitely say that the Departments

& Bowley will gain absolutely nothing. They Messrs. Jardine Matheson

& Co. will, in fact, lose something which

Messrs. Little Adams &

Wood is very well worth keeping-the goodwill and respect of the Press. In Hong Kong perhaps more than in any other place we know, the local Government gets more than due consideration-and free advertising from the Press. Here Tve allow all sorts of restrictions to be imposed upon our work and the manner in which we do our work; we bow

Messrs. E. D. Sassoon &

Co., Ltd.

Messrs. Wilkinson & Grist

A leakage apparently existed in pected to do, mum, I'm no stoppin"." a circuit running along the base I just couldn't stand it!" - 50.00 ment wall and which was in some

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way. brought into contact with the Judge: Would you like to chal- 25.00 fron bars and wet concrete form-lenge any of the jurymen?

ing the reinforcement of the parti-

150,00

Burly Prisoner: Well, yer honour, tions.

During the course of his aint in trainin' myself, but I work, the victim apparently form-

ed a circuit with his body between wouldn't mind 'aving a couple of 25.00 the reinforced concrete partitions rounds with the little chap in the

and the corrugated iron roof (both | corner,,' 150.00 of which were very wet), which

50.00 gave him the fatal shock.

$1,380.00

FORGED NOTES ?.

CHINESE AND ALLEGED COUNTERFEITING.

J.

MAKING A PLATE.

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申

"But," said the cautious screen Witness tested to discover where star, who was about to perform an the corrugated iron roof was good apparently dangerous feat; "aup- "earth," and got full voltage of 200 pose the rope should break?" between the roof and the live wire

"By George!" cried the director, -

of the feeder system. He also puthat's a good idea!”

in an insulation test on the cir-

cult marked "40" by the Electric

Company's representative, and got

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Policeman (producing | notebok):

a direct zero reading, which meant Name, please? almost dead earth,

Motorist: Aloysius Alastair In his address of the jury, Major Cyprian-

without question to any "sugges- Evidence was yesterday after-Willson suggested that they should Policeman (putting away note- tion" emanating from an official noon taken by Mr. R. E. Lindsell add a rider to their finding of book): Well, don't let me catch you source; we anhesitatingly throw case in which a Chinese employ only point his Worship could think

at the Central Magistracy in the "death by misadventure." The again!

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hai, to Mr. and Mrs. V. Houle, publicity it uska for, if not all It with the accused, charged as ac.turned a verdict of "death by mis-penny.

open our columns, free of charge, ed in the photograveur department of was that before any work was The marble-playing season bad for Post Office notices and other of the Commercial Press, Kennedy undertaken of a similar nature to arrived, and with it, grief for little Town, is charged with making an that done in this case the electric HOULEN-On December 12, nt Government notifications; we give impression of a Central Bank of

installation should first be Tommy Green. The old gentleman the St. Marie Hospital, Shang-Officialdom, In fact, all the free China bank note design.

who found him sobbing in the' gut- examined to ensure safety, Three other Chinese were in the dock

The jury after consultation re-ter tried to comfort him with

complices.

adventure," and added the rider "Don't cry over the loss of a few The accused were defended by that all consumers of electricity marbles," he said, "Go and bu

should have their Installation some more."

a son.

DEATH.

BALLHEIMER-On December 14,

1927, at the Paulun Hospital, Shanghai, Emma Ballheimer aged 40 years, dearly beloved wife of W. Ballheimer,

Hong Kong. Tuesday, Dec. 20, 1927.

we

Ing

NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

because

craves and in return we get mere -toleration, if that (and if our licence is in order!) and, as in the case

of the Police Department and the other one referred to, impertinence. It does not seem good enough.

POLICE CHARGED.

ALLEGED POSSESSION OF CONTRABANDS,

Mr. C. S. Hugh-Jones,

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Evidence was given by a fore-examined once every three years by "It ain't t-the m-m-arbles man of the Commercial Press that the companies supplying the elec- I'm crying over," sobbed Tommy. Bank of Kwangsi, but had not at they printed bank notes of the tricity.

any time printed Central Bank of China notes.

Some time ago the first accused handed the witness what appeared to be a genuine note of the Cen- tral Bank of China, and asked him to make a photograph, on

which the colours on the notes were to be brought out,

“NOTIFIABLE.”

PRINCIPAL DISEASES IN

COLONY.

Enteric fever-2 cases (one Bri- tish, imported, and one Chinese).

Cerebro-apiral fever-1 case, fatal (Chinese).

Puerperal fever-1 case, fatal

PETTY THEFTS.

"It's f-father's glass' eye—I've lost that."

Dentist: I'll have to charge you 128. 6d. for pulling that tooth.

Patient: I thought you charged 28. 6d. ?

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Billy: Oo! I think I must have swallowed a caterpillar, then!

Householder: Here, drop that coat and clear out.

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Stout Gentleman (after buying - paper): Hi! I can't see anything about a swindle.

Newsboy: Great swindle, seventy- five victims

Dentist: Yes, but you yelled so loudly that you scared four other The weekly report of the Medical patients out of the place. Thinking that it would lead to a Officer of Health shows that tho From the account given op the REVOLVERS & AMMUNITION. big order for the firm, the witness cases of notifiable diseases that Billy: Mummy, do gooseberries front page of the "China Mail” yes-

consented to make an experiment, occurred during the week ended De- have legs? Chinese police constable No. C439 but it was not successful, and the cember 17 were as follows: terday.of certain restrictions im- was this morning charged before witness broke up the negative. He

Mummy: Good gracious, no, posed upon the loent Press by the Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central subsequently refused to make an (one Portuguese and four Chinese).

Diphtheria-5 cases, two fatal dear! police authorifica, it would appear Magistracy with the unlawful pos- that the manager's authority must other one, telling the first accused that the former have merely had session of 40 Smith and Wesson re-first be secured. The witness be volvers and 1,809 rounds of am-came suspicious when the first and their knuckles rapped for, being munition.

fourth accused pressed the busi- naughty. This action, of course, The accused was defended by Mr.ness to the point of offering him

Burglar: You be quiet, or I'll resent, and we

giv. M. K. Lo, who entered a plea of $100 and then $200 to undertake (Chinese). are

wake your wife and show her this "not guilty."

the work. The witness refused,

Influenza publicity It

(not notifiable)-one letter you forgot to post. it The accused constable's arrest saying that it was against the law death is a matter which affects the in- was brought about by information Next day the witness saw the

Rabies-one dog.

Newsboy: Great swindle, seventy- terests of our readers as much as given by one of two coolies who first and third accused working on ja copper plate transferring on im-

During the 24 hours ended yes-four victimal. it does our own; it is the reader were taken into custody by the pression on to the copper. Ile terday one case of enteric fever

Pollee in Connaught Road, wherewithcas) informed the manager. (Chnlese) was reported. of this and other local journals they were carrying a packing case When the manager went to in- who ultimately suffers as the re- in which the contraband was found vestigatte, third accused had ault of such high-handedness on the concealed.

already loft, and first accused isk. part of a Government department. that he was engaged by the other First accused was then ordered out The coolie, giving evidence anided him to keep the matter private. The example of official obtuseness coolle to help him to carry the pack of the building by the manager, now brought to notice is not by any ing case. They first went to u above Hollywood means the first of its kind. Ro- house in a lane

Road, where he alleged that he saw cently a representative of a contemthe accused, who was wearing a |porary fell foul of another Govern- pate of Police uniform trousers.

ment department, with the result They (the coolles) afterward ac- THE OLD BANK, NOTE TRICK

"No, aunty," said Eric after a that some time during last night a that information for the Press companied another man, whom the

thief broke a glass in the show- pause,. "But tell me, how did they accused said was his brother, to an- from that Department was only other street where the packing case

to keep the dot under A Chinese woman living in Can-case and stole electrical goods to manage

him?" obtainable by way of a "Press was pointed out to them, and they ton Road, Kowloon, yesterday re- the value of $48. The theft was {Table"-a painted board stuck in a proceeded to carry it away, follow-ported to the Police that two men discovered when the shop was open- ing the man sent out with them by obtained from her own bangles ed for business this morning. This passage-way and invariably empty the accused. When the Police ar-worth $48 by means of the old bank is not to be put together. of Information or anything else, rested he and the other coolle, they note trick. All she got in return The first point that arises from looked for the man but could not for her property was a bundle of calm consideration of the above Is:-.fed him.

waste paper which the men sald Two days subsequent to the ar- were. Chinese bank notes. These The manager of the Navy, Army Why on earth should the rest of rest, witness took the Police to the they asked her to change for them, and Air Force Institute at Mount the Press be punished for the mis- house and there pointed out the ac as they were strangers and did not Austin Barracks has reported to the had no dog take of one of its members? And cused as the man he had seen in know the way to the money chang- Police, the theft from the canteen "Then," said the official, coldly, the second point is: What do these the house on the previous occasioner's. She was persuaded to hand between 2 and 8 p.m. yesterday of "am I to understand that the tall The case was adjourned until to her bangles over as security for the aquantity of cigarettes and some hanging down below your coat is Government Departments hope to morrow fternoon

km supposed notes. Y

money to the total value of $45. your own?

and had since not returned to work.

The case was adjourned.

WASTE PAPER.

AGAIN.

SHOWCASE BROKEN IN DES

VOEUX ROAD,

The accountant of the Sam Yuen shop of No. 257, Des Voeux Road Central, has reported to the Police

Eric was a little boy who was always asking questions. One day his aunty said to him: "Eric, do you know the story of a little boy who was always asking questions, until one day he turned into a big 'quea- tion-mark!"

One day an official encountered a woman who he had every reason to suppose was infringing the law.

"Mudam," he told her, "it is cop- trary to the regulations to bring dogs: Into this country."

The woman protested that sho